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Current Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian-democratic CDU/CSU party September 22 general election, winning 41.5 per cent of the vote.
The social-democratic opposition obtained 25.7 per cent, the Greens 8.4 per cent, while the FDP liberals, the Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Pirate Party all failed to score above the 5 per cent threshold needed to enter parliament.
For Bildzeitung, the result is not only a victory, but "a gigantic triumph for the Chancellor". At close to 42 per cent, the CDU/CSU has achieved its best score since 1990. However, its current coalition partner, the FDP, will not be present in parliament for the first time since the founding of the Federal Republic in 1949.
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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